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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort." Do you ask, how is this aptly to the purpose in hand? I reply, Very much so; for observe, they were greatly vexed and troubled that the Apostle had not come to them, and that, though he had promised, but had spent the whole time in Macedonia; preferring as it seemed others to themselves. …
Cyril of Jerusalem
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." For in the thought of God, let the thought of Father be included, so that the glory which we ascribe to the Father and the Son with the Holy Spirit may be perfectly free from difference. For the Father has not one glory and the Son another, but their glory is one and the same, since the Son is the Father's sole-begotten. When the Father is glorified, the Son shares in enjoyment of his glory, because the Son draws his glory from the honoring of the Father. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
In the first epistle he promised to come to them, but since he did not come, he supposed that he had greatly grieved them with the thought that he had preferred others over them. So, wishing to justify himself and show that many temptations that had befallen him had delayed him, he offers a fine explanation in his defense. I give thanks, he says, to God who saved me from dangers; through this thanksgiving he hints that there were certain great obstacles holding him back, for deliverance from which he also gives thanks. …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Here begins the message, in which the Apostle does two things: first, he excuses himself for not visiting them as he had promised; secondly, he begins to follow out his intention (chap. 3). In regard to the first he does two things: first, he wins their good will; secondly, he presents his excuse (v. 15). In regard to the first he does two things: first, he wins their good will by citing some general facts; secondly, some special ones (v. 8). …
Bernard of Clairvaux
If, I say, he shall have come in this, in this I shall know that he is not alone, but that his Father also has come with him. For what is so fatherly? On this account indeed he is called not only Father of the Word, but also Father of mercies, because it is innate in him always to have mercy and to spare.
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